# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1927_S153
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

The young people of our congregations were
encouraged to organize young people’s societies, and
Pastor I. J. Alston, of Atlanta, Ga., was chosen to
collect and distribute appropriate literature to guide
and interest them. A letter of gratitude was ordered

Superintendent G. A. Schmidt.

sent to the Dixie District of the Walther League for
an appropriation of $25 to aid in developing a
national organization of colored young people’s
societies. A committee headed by Pastor Luecke, of
New Orleans, was chosen to study the situation and
aid any movement that would tend to such a
development.

Instructive and inspirational sermons and ad-
dresses were delivered by Pastors W. F. Carlson, of
Oak Hill, Ala.; W. J. Tervalon, of Napoleon-
ville, La.; A. Schulze, of Springfield, Ill.; W. G.
Schwehn, of Hannibal Mo.:, J. McDavid, of Los
‘Angeles, Cal.; A. Poppe, of Little Rock, Ark.;
Prof. F. Berg, of Greensboro, N. C.; and Super-
intendent F. D. Alston, of Charlotte, N. C., Can-
didate L. Gauthreaux was ordained to the Gospel
ministry.

Timely theses were presented by our venerable
president, Prof. F. Berg, on the subject, “What we,”
4. ¢., the workers in our Mission, “should do just at
this time, when our Mission has completed the first
half century of its existence and we are enabled
to celebrate its Golden Jubilee.” Praise and thanks-
giving for the blessings of the past and renewed

consecration to the work of the present and future
characterized his paper.

Letters of sympathy were directed to Director
C.F. Drewes and to Miss Rosa Young, who could
A letter of
greeting from Professor Meibohm was gratefully
received.

not be present on account of illness.

The next convention is to meet with Holy
Trinity Congregation, of Springfield, Hl., in the
summer of 1930, at which time a committee, headed
by Superintendent Schmidt, is to report on the
probable cost and desirability of furnishing a print-
shop of our own. A committee, composed of Pastors
Carter, Gose, and Schulze, and Delegate W. . Fisch,
of Springfield, are also to report the results of their
conferences with the Mission Board and with the
Synodical Conference on the proposition of forming
ourselves into a missionary synod, which is to
work with the Mission Board in the prosecution
of our work.

Pastor Carter heads the Press Committee for
the next convention, and the Mission Board is
urgently invited to be present in a body.

The officers for this triennium are: President,
Prof. F. Berg; First Vice-President, Superinten-
dent G. A. Schmidt; Second Vice-President, Rey.

Rev. M. N. Carter.

O. W. Luecke; Secretary, Rev. M. N. Carter; As-
sistant Secretary, Mr. W. E. Fisch; Treasurer, Rev.
E. H. Wildgrube. The Executive Committee, to
which all overtures for the next convention should
be sent at least six weeks in advance of the date of
Meeting, consists of the president of the conference
and the several field superintendents.